Meet the Austins: Book One of the Austin Family Chronicles (Paperback)

from StephJoan

I LOVED this book. I read the 24 days before Christmas to my kids and they and I really liked it. We were so excited to find another book about the characters that we had grown to love. I read this book to my girls when they were pretty young, and there were times when I felt surprised that they ...

from lycomayflower

Well, dang. I'm glad I didn't let my totally lukewarm reaction to A Wrinkle in Time stop me from picking up this first novel in L'Engle's The Austin Family Chronicles. I've said that I enjoyed the first bit of A Wrinkle in Time, before the kids go off on the adventure, while the rest of it left m...

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Well, dang. I'm glad I didn't let my totally lukewarm reaction to A Wrinkle in Time stop me from picking up this first novel in L'Engle's The Austin Family Chronicles. I've said that I enjoyed the first bit of A Wrinkle in Time, before the kids go off on the adventure, while the rest of it left m...

from Jean_Sexton

I read this decades ago and decided it was time to see if it were as good as I remembered. If anything, it was better. I think it is because I have experienced loss, making some of this more real. While death looms over the book (Maggie has been suddenly orphaned), it is far more about life. As L...

from tjsjohanna

One of the nice things about this book is how the story is told in such a quiet and straight-forward way. Vickie sounds like a 12 year old - but a nice one from a nice family. The reader gets to "meet" the family, along with Maggie who comes to live with the Austins at the beginning of the tale. ...